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 cannot confine our thoughts or the expression of them within a dungeon. They cannot build walls so high, that our prayers shall not overleap them, and go up to the God of the oppressed. They may (though it is too monstrous to be apprehended in this age and country,) they may perhaps inflict death upon us, but that would only set our spirits free a little sooner, and send them into the more immediate presence of Him, who has filled our hearts with this Love of Liberty.